Seems Hopeless

Episode 4: Sea Level Rise


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For episode four, we decided to focus on the environmental injustice surrounding sea-level rise. More often than not, people focus on the large-scale impacts of a rising sea level while overlooking the effect on the daily lives of individuals. In this episode, we explore the sea-level rise and how different communities will experience the consequences in drastically different ways. We talk about how in Georgia, for example, policy-makers would rather look at sea level rise vulnerability through a technocratic lens, ignoring the cultural and socio-spatial aspect of the problem. Essentially, this “colorblind” adaptation planning for sea-level rise further exemplifies how, in the future, specific communities will suffer the brunt of it while others will be protected through vulnerability mitigation.

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Seems HopelessBy Olamide Ajasin, Samuel Alzate, Shohom Bose, Noemi Carrillo, Shirling Xu

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